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I was using your own example, Adobe with Photoshop etc, not open source. Open Source is totally different of course. However a middle ground may be what Microsoft is doing with Office 2010, that is they provide the 64bit version of the product with the 32bit version. Of course, Microsoft gets to slightly dictate terms about their platform, as previously noted there will be a point in the future where 32bit won't be an option anymore.

You also have to consider things from the other side. A company that makes a new product needs to make it available for use amongst all their prospective buyers. I am certain that Adobe could get away with forcing a hardware or software requirement but then you can bet there will be outrage because of it. Or maybe you think they would create two versions, one that goes along the regular path they are doing now, and then make a 64bit optimized version. How much more expensive do you think the 64bit version would be? How many people do you think would pay for that version? Do you think Adobe would make enough money on the 64bit version to make up for all the labor costs used up to create it? How about the advertising costs? Yes it would make sense to just get with the program and go 64bit, but the whole world does not operate like the power users and enthusiasts do. It just wouldn't work out the way you are thinking.

Sounds interesting, but why do I have to see my MD5? Is that not an action behind the scenes? Do I have any use with my MD5? Behind of that, if I install any facebook application, the creator of that app can detact my facebook password? You see it partly because Facebook is lazy. There are other ways to do it, but who knows why FB decides to show it to you. It has nothing to do with your password. Here is a general example of why they use this type of info. Say you go to a website. When you get there, it creates a cookie. Inside the cookie is a temporary MD5 hash value. This is also stored in your browser session. This way, the site will check everytime you go to a page to see if you are logged in. It may do this by making sure the hash in your browser session matches the one in your cookie. If they are the same, you are logged in. If they are not the same (or the cookie is deleted) you are not logged in anymore. You can even try that here, MSFN does not put the hash value in the URL for you to see, but it is there. Go and delete your cookie and refresh the page. You will not be logged in anymore! Anyone who is smart at webpage security would make it so the hash has an expiry. So that no one can take your cookie to steal your login. In the best cases, there are 3 keys used by the website. One in the cookie, one in the browser and one on the server. This way, you can say (A + B) * ServerCode = C. So that the cookie and browser key can be different, but the server can take both of them and generate a third key it keeps to itself. So as long as A + B = C you will be logged in.

BestBuy is not the ideal place to compare TV display quality in most cases. This is because the video signals they use for all their screens is split so many times the video quality is usually pretty bad. Maybe you'll get lucky and find a display with just 1 source on it.

OK so if I am right by what you are saying (you'll have to research this too) is that you get a TFTP timeout on clients booting to PXE where they are on a different subnet or IP block than the PXE or WDS Server? But clients that get an IP on the same IP block or subnet have no problems? If this ends up being the case, definately sounds more like a networking problem rather than with just WinPE.

The RAM on the clients should be OK then. Next you need to troubleshoot your app in the PE. You did not say what version PE it is, or what architecture. If it is WinPE v2.1 x86, does you app run in a Vista SP1 PC? If your app makes use of .NET Framework shared assemblies, note that WinPE does not have .NET support. Use ProcMon or Dependency Walker to make sure your program has all the files it needs to run properly.

Note for the future, the Windows 7 WAIK documentation clearly states that in order to image Windows 7, you must sysprep using the generalize switch. There are instances where a non-generalized image will work on other hardware, but that is getting into the realm of non-support. Generalize will remove the network location you chose previously, but obviously the OS is on a different PC with a different NIC MAC Address and sees a new network.

I don't completly agree with you: the itanium isn't supported by XP x86. Also if you install win 3.11 on dual core or better you won't get all the benefits of the dual core architecture. Ok then, find me a motherboard that uses an Itanium CPU that has XP support... Here it is : a HP Zx2000 http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=fr&prodNameId=82076&prodTypeId=12454&prodSeriesId=82074&swEnvOID=1026&taskId=135&swLang=13 And as for the price you can find one there : http://cgi.ebay.fr/HP-ZX2000-Itanium-2-900MHz-4GB-36GB-DVD-A7844-84002-/300333964940?cmd=ViewItem&pt=COMP_EN_Workstations&hash=item45ed4c9e8c It isn't exactly cheap but some designers or modelers might need this kind of power (instead of buying silicon graphic workstations). Right well you see there it says XP 64bit in that webpage, but you spoke of XP x86... Anyways about previous post (it was on page 2 so I couldn't use multiquote) there is no real point to using a 64bit OS and not use more than 4GB RAM. Yes it is going to be next to (if not) impossible to properly score the benefits of a properly used 64bit system against a 32bit system. So to say "you will not see any real difference" I beg to differ when I think about how much better our servers are now that they have minimum 16GB RAM in them.

If it is the same type of file as the current bootloader screen, you could probably just replace it. This is more of a customizing Windows question, but check out this thread here:

Perhaps you can enable BOOTP (i think WDS uses this, maybe not) on only one of the servers? I might be wrong.

What is the size of your boot.wim (on the CD) and the size of physical memory in the client? Here are some practical examples of requirements: a ~200MB boot.wim x86 requires 512MB RAM on the client a ~200MB boot.wim x64 requires ~1GB RAM on the client however a 600MB boot.wim x86 will not work on a system with 4GB RAM on the client

Its a hash key, typically used for session verification.

I don't completly agree with you: the itanium isn't supported by XP x86. Also if you install win 3.11 on dual core or better you won't get all the benefits of the dual core architecture. Ok then, find me a motherboard that uses an Itanium CPU that has XP support...

Windows 7 support and Vista support is very similar. For example, I've never actually used Vista outside of Audit mode, but used Windows 7 quite a bit. I find I was able to get my Vista certification (it was free to take the test, why not) and passed it with flying colors. Learn Windows 7 and you'll basically know Vista. Only thing you need to know about Vista is the book smart type stuff, like what editions can do what and upgrade paths.

I always thought XP was an emote... xP

I'm not sure why I used this rom instead of the regular one. It was a long time ago, maybe the same problems you are experiencing?

I put a link to this thread in the Win PE FAQ thread that is stickied.

Try using: \boot\x86\wdsnbp.com which was what I used for WDS/PXE on Server 2003. 2008 is much easier to use since I migrated over, but my old 2003 guide is here if it helps any:

Yes, it also can't test sound. I tried awhile back to get DirectX to work on WinPE for BIT to use, the thread is around here somewhere. Anyways, about the manual, is there basically no extra steps that needed to be taken to get BIT to work in WinPE 3.0 as compared to v2.x? That was my only question.

When I made my own CMS, my login page submitted info to itself. If it passed, it would redirect to a user welcome page. If login failed, it would redirect to a failed page. I made this in 2005, but if I would redo it, I would definately use AJAX so I could do everything with just 1 page. Of course, all form fields used a validator include, and all pages had a sentry include that checked session info and user rights levels. I don't know if it would help you much, I did it in PHP.

1. Intel e1e6032.inf e1g6032.inf 2. The Diskpart List Disk would not have show any disks as present. Is there a reason why you injected both of those? I don't think I've ever used the g version. Try taking the G out and just use the e instead.

You can try adding QTTASK.EXE into the AppLocker and disallow it to be run. I do not know if that would effect using QuickTime to play videos or not.

I have checked the compatibility, it is a Rev B1 and drivers are available. However, I was not able to get the USB drivers to work. I am using Win98 FE and any time I try to install the USB Drivers I get a BSOD. I will see about bringing a CD home from work. I've had USB working on this OS previously, but as noted it was with a different motherboard. I also had used Win98 SE USB files to get USB 2.0 to work. I have finally put Shiva where it will go. I still do not have a monitor for it yet so I used my trickery. Shiva is now a member of a (probably) insane setup. Here is the hook up: Shiva S-Video to AV switch box. Audio from green out on sound card (configured to run in 2 channel) to AV Switch box. AV Switch box (4 inputs, 1 out): Input1: DTV Satellite Receiver (Composite) Input2: PS2 (Composite) Input3: Shive (Composite Audio + S-Video) Input4: empty Output: VCR! Yes output everything to VCR, which can also play tapes still. VCR out to 4 channel (heavily modified by me) sound system. Video out to television. So Shiva actually displays to a TV, through a VCR. Maybe not the ideal setup, but it connects that way because the VCR handles all audio from all the components. When I get a monitor, I will use the TV as a second display. Also, because of the age of the TV, I can't read anything on the screen unless I set resolution to 640x480! I tested audio with Winamp (sound is better than from any other input) and some games. Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Diablo played, but Carmageddon 2 did not seem to like S-Video. Current task list: 1. Get USB installed 2. Playing movies problem! 3. Test out transparency OK weird issue about playing movies. I tried only playing movies in Winamp, did not try Divx or WMPC yet. But the videos play fine, no artifacts, sounds good but... they play UPSIDE DOWN! What can cause videos to play upside down? I've never seen this before, no idea where to start... EDIT: forgot to say I wanted to test out how well transparency works with the new hardware. I added that to #3.

The CPU itself isn't really where you want to focus on whether or not it is XP compatible. You want to see if the motherboard you have, or want to use, is compatible with XP, ie there are XP drivers available for it on the manufacturer's website. As an example. XP is supported on all Intel Desktop and Workstation boards currently available that support an i3 processor.

I wasn't sure about mentioning a program. My web server that runs Apache was installed with the XAMPP package. Also very simple. The only thing I had to do (besides creating logins) was change the port in the Apache files so it did not interfere with IIS. It was a 5 minute install, very simple. So with this WebPI you can run PHP on the same port as IIS?